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One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading (Masters of Railroad Photography)

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This book is easily my best rail book purchase in a longtime. The photo reproduction is supurb and railfans have not seen thesort of writing that is in this book since David P. Morgan died.

This book will probably not interest the rivet counter/roster shot takers, it centers on people, on heartfelt feelings, on the things that matter.

Highly recomended.

Mark Bau END

These photographic essays on Western railroading provide excellent black and white images of trains, providing a photogenic collection of rail scenes from across the country. Rail buffs will find these historical photographic presentations engrossing.

If you're not a fan of railroads and not a fan of photography, you will still enjoy this book. It's no secret Ted's been around, and to some places you wouldn't even believe. However with all these places it's hard to contain it all in a single volume, but Ted has done a wonderful job picking the best and his favorite photographs for the book. Thirteen lucky chapters detail his subjects with a flare and writing that goes down like a bottle of imported beer...nice and smooth! This book is a must for your home library!

This is the first in a series of books presenting the work of well-known American railroad photographers. Ted Benson offers verbal and photographic commentary on the railroad operations in California and other western states in the second half of the twentieth century and provides background histories of the various companies. The reader learns the "boots on the ground" operation as well as the "big picture" of railroading there as Ted saw it. The images are all black and white; this enhances the effect of certain elements, such as the dramatic sky conditions in several of the photos. I consider the book very enjoyable.